The Long Night

@Wuffy He gets back safely.

@Saber Eein does some serious damage to the flower, but not quite enough to escape. He'll be stuck there for almost twelve hours, attempting to resist the flowers control, before the Akt'anir arrive, having traced his phone and found him in need of a rescue.

Around 2PM, the entity known as the Veil made itself known near the Food Festival. While there were some initial bumps (including some light impersonation), the Veil did clarify both what is happening to the island, and what could be done.

• Belief is a collective force. Belief powers gods and magic, but also things like faerie rings, miracles, etc. All things supernatural are powered by or connected to belief in some way.
• Belief, while largely collective, is also localized to an extent. Yokai tend to be localized to Japan. Fae courts hold more sway in Europe.
• Pre-Tern, the Island's collective belief was strong. Almost anything could happen there without consequences and it was insulated from the world's collective lack of belief.
• However, in the narrow reality the same was not true. Any sort of extreme outlier would be acted upon by the local belief, generally causing it to be erased entirely. This prevented the supernatural from being revealed on a large scale, because when attempts were foiled, people tended to get more and more extreme and those were more and more likely to be erased as outliers.
• The death of magic was not a true death, but a reflection of the general lack of belief in the narrow reality. As the narrow reality believed less, the supernatural had less power.
• Tern made a big mistake: He recognized that a force was suppressing attempts to break the veil, and he mistakenly equated it with the decline of magic he was detecting. Rather than removing consequences for breaking the veil though, his actions instead removed the island's protections- their belief. The entity he called the Veil was cut off from the greater belief, making it a separate entity containing the Island's collective belief.
• Because Manta Carlos had no collective belief then, it was in danger of being suppressed. The wider world might have had two hundred years left, but Manta Carlos had no more than fifty. It lacked the protective belief of the island's occupants, and new arrivals to the island would not be able to repair the damage in time.
• However, when the Veil was released from its prison in Dark Crystal Academy, it began to enact changes to protect Manta Carlos. The Veil was pure belief in the supernatural, unburdened by disbelief. That allowed it far more power to do what it could to protect the island from being rendered mundane: namely, it placed the island within a pocket dimension.
• When the pocket dimension was originally formed, it was entirely isolated from all other realities. Around forty-eight hours later, it regained connection to other realities, including Earth itself.